Leanne Prak is charged with murder over the stabbing murder of 65-year-old Michael McEvoy in Australia

She has pleaded not guilty to murder but admitted the lesser offence of manslaughter, an admission not accepted by the Crown.

Opening the trial in the Supreme Court on Monday, prosecutor Chris Edge told the jury that Prak, who was an alcoholic, was drunk at the time of the attack which came during a “yelling match” between her and Mr McEvoy.